There will be a flyover of jets in his hometown on Tuesday, and 100 people will have naturalisation ceremonies in his honour.

Jimmy Carter celebrates his 100th birthday on Tuesday, making him the first US president to reach the milestone.

Carter, a Democrat who served in the White House from 1977 to 1981, has spent the past 19 months in hospice care in his home state of Georgia.

But the former peanut farmer, who first entered politics in the 1960s as a state senator, is “emotionally engaged and still having experiences and laughing, loving,” his grandson, Jason, said in September.

And the centenarian still has political ambitions: “I’m only trying to make it to vote for Kamala Harris” in November’s election, the humanitarian and Nobel Prize recipient said, according to his grandson.

  • tired_n_bored
    188•3 months ago

    I gasped before reading the title till the end

    • @aeronmelon
      38•3 months ago

      A rollercoaster of emotions within the span of a sentence.

      • @danc4498English
        6•3 months ago

        You had me in the first half dot jpg

    • Miles O'BrienEnglish
      13•3 months ago

      Any and every headline that begins with “Jimmy Carter, former US President” makes my stomach drop a bit. For like a decade now.

    • Chozo
      9•3 months ago

      Seriously, with all the other bad celebrity news lately, I expected the worst.

    • SeaJ
      6•3 months ago

      I had read the headline before this post and still gasped.